Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, the head of Doctors Without Borders' mission in Yemen, says combat deaths are not the only human cost of the civil war there. Patients with treatable conditions are now at risk because Yemen is running out of drugs and doctors. She wants the international community to step up and help.

The bombing in Yemen would be halted, the Saudis announced on Tuesday, but Wednesday morning saw renewed air strikes from Saudi Arabia and ground fighting across the country. And as the violence continues, Baraa Shiban is left calling his family from London every day, hoping that they've survived the latest attacks.

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04/09/2015 - 8:45pm

International efforts to evacuate foreign nationals from Yemen have taken center stage in the news, but efforts to get aid into the country have proven at least as complicated as attempts to get foreign citizens out.

For Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a 26-year-old Yemeni American, fleeing Yemen meant dodging armed militiamen, airstrikes and riding a small fishing boat in the rocky Red Sea for hours. But many other American citizens remain trapped in the country.

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04/02/2015 - 10:00pm

Critics of the Houthi rebels in Yemen say they are in league with Iran, a claim the rebels deny. But no one denies the Houthis are partnered with an ally much closer to home: Yemen's onetime dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, who remains a force in Yemen and may have billions of dollars at his disposal.

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03/30/2015 - 4:00pm

As bombs fall, China, India and Pakistan have evacuated their nationals. Why not us, asks Bronx-born 20-year-old Summer Nasser? The State Department, which has evacuated government personnel and families, says it has no plans to evacuate ordinary US citizens.

The Houthi takeover of much of Yemen has turned into a regional power struggle, as a Saudi-led military coalition has started attacking Houthi targets in Yemen. The intervention could now have far wider implications outside of Yemen, including at the nuclear negotiating table.

A day after Houthi forces failed to seize the airport and destroy the presidential palace in Yemen's second city, Aden, several suicide bombers brought violence to the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Amidst the chaos, it is hard to know who orchestrated the attacks.

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What's it feel like to watch your country succumb to revolution from afar? Ask Yemeni student Ibrahim al-Hajiby. He watched the Arab Spring engulf Yemen in 2011 from his college in Minnesota, and he's doing the same now as Houthi rebels take over the Yemeni government.

Reporter Iona Craig just returned from three weeks in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, where residents are caught between street-fighting Houthis, local militias and Saudi air strikes. She says conditions in the southern port city are desperate. "I was expecting it to be bad, but it was much, much worse than even I imagined it would be."

The Houthi insurgency may be low on the radar of American worries in Yemen, the but the Shiite group is now in the streets of the capital and fighting government forces. And that battle could hand an opportunity to the group Western nations are focused on: al-Qaeda.

A group called ?Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula? based in Yemen claimed to be behind the failed Christmas day bombing attempt near Detroit. The World's Matthew Bell reports on the group and its leaders.

Washington is walking a fine line when it comes to the responding to the anti-government protests in Yemen, says Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Haykel speaks with anchor Marco Werman.

Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, the head of Doctors Without Borders' mission in Yemen, says combat deaths are not the only human cost of the civil war there. Patients with treatable conditions are now at risk because Yemen is running out of drugs and doctors. She wants the international community to step up and help.

There's no let-up in Yemen's war. It's a complicated conflict, which started with Houthi rebels ousting the country's president and continues now with Saudi Arabia's air strike campaign against the Houthis. American reporter Matthieu Aikins traveled to Yemen by smuggling himself into a country where humanitarian aid cannot reach, but Saudi bombs can.

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What's it feel like to watch your country succumb to revolution from afar? Ask Yemeni student Ibrahim al-Hajiby. He watched the Arab Spring engulf Yemen in 2011 from his college in Minnesota, and he's doing the same now as Houthi rebels take over the Yemeni government.

For Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a 26-year-old Yemeni American, fleeing Yemen meant dodging armed militiamen, airstrikes and riding a small fishing boat in the rocky Red Sea for hours. But many other American citizens remain trapped in the country.

One of the largest military offensives against al-Qaeda in Yemen, involving US air strikes and Yemeni ground troops, began about three weeks ago. At the same time, there's been an uptick in the number of attacks, kidnappings and assassinations in Yemen's capital. But the number of Western journalists there to cover it has dwindled to zero in recent days.

US officials launched an air attack on ISIS rebels in Syria this week, making the war-torn Middle East country the seventh state — at least — to see US airstrike since 2011. Meanwhile, an African nation torn by Ebola is agreeing to halt logging in exchange for development aid. And in Iraq, the nation's Kurdish minority is looking at what it has achieved — with high hopes for its future.